19-01-2021, 05:03 PM
Helmut,
thanks for the explanation.
One can always argue about the validity of statistics, but the problem with this one (the very high fraction of words ending in y ) is that it is so far off from any reasonable number for Latin words ending in -us or -um or even combined, that there is no chance for a match.
Just from memory, if the language were Italian, then a word-final -i would be a lot closer in terms of frequency.
Maybe Marco remembers better.
thanks for the explanation.
One can always argue about the validity of statistics, but the problem with this one (the very high fraction of words ending in y ) is that it is so far off from any reasonable number for Latin words ending in -us or -um or even combined, that there is no chance for a match.
Just from memory, if the language were Italian, then a word-final -i would be a lot closer in terms of frequency.
Maybe Marco remembers better.

